Egypt: Death penalty / legal concern

2 octobre 1996, N° d'index: MDE 12/025/1996

Anwar Hamed 'Abbas, Ahmad 'Abd al-Wahhab Ahmad Khalil and 16 others, reportedly including three juvenils: On 30 September 1996, the above were sentenced to death in absentia by the (Emergency) State Security Court in Cairo in a case involving 18 alleged members of the banned armed Islamist group al-Gama'a al-Islamiya.